[Advertising Broadside] [Tranportation]

THE AMERICAN HUB! / [vignette of metal hub] / The Public is Invited to Examine this / VALUABLE IMPROVEMENT IN / METALLIC CARRIAGE HUBS! / Fully Meeting and Overcoming the Several Objections here- / tofore Preventing their General Use. [caption title]

Cleveland, Ohio: Viets & Savage Printers, 184 Superior Street. nd [1860-67]? Broadside. 31 x 20.5 cm. Printed in various sizes and styles of type. Some faint, old staining and scattered foxing. Signed in type by the inventor and patentee, Charles Leavitt who describes the quality and reasons the metal hubs are an improvement over wooden. He estimates that in a few years, carriages of all kinds, as well as artillery and fire engine hubs will be made with his device. The hubs and axles, manufactured and sold at wholesale, available from Frederick Ives of New Haven Conn., who continued the company his father George started. We've dated this advertising broadside based on the imprints available on OCLC for this printer. Item #65270

Price: $275.00